Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare speech production at 12 months of age for children with hearing loss (HL) who were identified and received intervention before 6 months of age with those of children with normal hearing (NH). Method: The speech production of 10 children with NH was compared with that of 10 children with HL whose losses were identified ( better ear pure-tone average at 0.5, 1, and 2 kHz poorer than 50 dB HL) and whose intervention started before 6 months of age. These children were recorded at 12 months of age interacting with a parent. Three properties of speech production were analyzed: (a) syllable shape, (b) consonant type, and (c) vowel formant frequencies. Results: Children with HL had (a) fewer multisyllable utterances with consonants, (b) fewer fricatives and fewer stops with alveolar-velar stop place, and (c) more restricted front-back tongue positions for vowels than did the children with NH. Conclusion: Even when hearing loss is identified shortly after birth, children with HL do not develop speech production skills as their peers with NH do at 12 months of age. This suggests that researchers need to consider their approaches to early intervention carefully.

Presents a study which investigated the influence of argument-structure complexity on the omission of auxiliary be verbs in a group of children with specific language impairment. Review on related literature; Methodology of the study; Discussion of the results of the study.

Objective: To determine whether the benefits of universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS) seen at age 8â€…years persist through the second decade.Design: Prospective cohort study of a population sample of children with permanent childhood hearing impairment (PCHI)...

It is currently unclear to what extent a spontaneous language sample of a given number of utterances is representative of a childâ€™s ability in morphology and syntax. This lack of information about the regularity of childrenâ€™s linguistic productions and the reliability of...

Presents a study which examined the relationship between the teaching method, oral or total communication, used at children's schools and children's consonant-production accuracy and vocabulary development over time. Methodology of the study; Statistical analyses of the data used in the study;...

The development of the lexicon and its structure is an essential indicator of the level of language acquisition and cognitive development. This paper summarizes the basic methods used in the research on lexical development, namely the analysis of spontaneous speech production, experimental...

This study investigated three questions: Is it realistic to expect age-appropriate spoken language skills in children with cochlear implants (CIs) who received auditory-oral intervention during the preschool years? What characteristics predict successful spoken language development in this...

Purpose: to check the number of children, between 5:0 and 11:6-year old, with and without Phonological Disorder, Brazilian Portuguese speaking children that imitated correctly the liquid sounds in the stimulability test considering each one of the subsequent vowels. Methods: the stimulability...

Examines the effects of auditory and other communicative experience on development of visual attention in infants. Development of visual attention by deaf and hearing infants; Association between infants' hearing status and patterns of visual attention; Differences in time in various attention...